Hi there buckaroos, this is Ken Maynard at the Diamond Cave. Hey Tarzan, Tarzan
Let's be a gentleman now. Come on over here and greet our friends
You know I've started a sneaking suspicion Tarzan been keeping his distance for a reason a good one
I want to spin a yarn for you about the ghost rider of Loma Escondida
And it just might be that Larsen here wants no part of that ghost business
You never saw such a busy piece of horse flesh in your life that he is busy about being some other place except here
I'm sure he'd be high-tailing for safer ground now if it weren't for the he likes to say hello to you buckaroos each time
You drop around but then I guess I'm being a little unfair to Tarzan. He certainly got me through enough tough spots
Ghosts are no-goes
Anyway, let's see how you stand up under this yarn. I'll be telling you about in just a moment
From the tack room of Ken Maynard's Diamond Cave Ranch. We're bringing you stories of adventure
Fascinating transcribed tales of the old west where cowboys still follow the cattle trail
Stories of rodeos and parades colorful legends of the red man
Hidden gold and buried treasures the exciting tales from the Diamond Cave are told by Hollywood's champion of Western stars
internationally famous Ken Maynard
Now Ken has a really unusual story for you today buckaroos just filled with thrills and speaking of thrills
Can you imagine Ken coming right into your living room and saying hello to you personally?
Boy now there is a thrill and that's not all no, sir
After Ken speaks directly to you. He'll tell you two of his favorite stories about the wild west
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When you play the records and Ken speaks to you personally, here's that great champion Ken
Well buckaroos you've heard of the saying my kingdom for a horse
Well truer words were never spoken for in the west many a cow
Who closes his life to his horse and a good piece of horse flesh was and is worth more than its weight and that gleaming stuff
We've been talking about for quite a spell in these stories
He's still keeping his distance though
But mighty curious to know what's going on. I tell you he's a smart man
Well to get on with the story. I was saying that folks in the west value a good horse more than money
Why in the early days the place was so full of horse thieves
You practically had to tie your horse to your boots at night to keep someone from stealing. It was that bad
They'd constantly find men dead along the trail with their horses missing. They'd be looking for a horse
They'd be looking for a horse that was dead. They'd be looking for a horse that was dead. They'd be looking for a horse that was missing
Mostly all the time. That's why when they found old jess cassidy with a hole in his head and his horse dead alongside of him
It created quite a stir
Not that the folks mourned jess so much, but they did a lot of mourning over his horse and no wonder
It was a bail coyote
It's fine. They're looking horses. You'd want to see that's the name the mexicans had for the creamy color
He was with a black stripe. I tell you jess used to make a right smart picture gouging along on that horse
And folks just stop what they're doing just to look and do a lot of wishing that bail coyote was theirs
So believe me buckaroos finding that horse dead sure put the countryside up in arms
Of course jess cassidy's saddlebags were gone and that suggested robbery
And with good reason for a little investigating showed that jess was on his way to buy a new herd of cattle
And those bags of his were just bulging with gold but to kill a horse
Sheriff came up with the theory that shooting the horse might have been an accident
The folks latched onto that one saying it's about time the sheriff was showing some sense and earning the money
They've been paying him and doing something about a murder instead of restricting his investigation to the town saloon
As I said jess just happened to have a good piece of horse flesh
And that's the only thing that puts some life in the sheriff
Well, it didn't take much brain work to figure out that the newton boys might have had something to do with it
They were bad ombres seeing that they just got out of jail. They were the first ones the sheriff suspected
Strange thing he was right
But the sheriff didn't get any credit for a good job of sleuthing because the newton boys admitted the job
I guess they were pretty well discussed with themselves for killing a bail coyote
It had happened as folks suspected
The horse and the gold had been the might too tempting for them
But the newtons had messed up the job, but they've done a right smart job of hiding just a saddle bag
And nary a trace of them or the gold was found that is for quite a spell
But the name of this story is the ghost rider of loma escandida and I suppose you buckaroos and tarsans
Have been waiting for that phantom fellow to put in an appearance
I'll be getting to him in a minute
But first while we rest just a minute, let me interrupt the story to tell you about something. I'm mighty proud of
Have you heard about my k-shirt? It's a real western shirt that a friend of mine designed especially for me
It started like a t-shirt, you know in nice cotton about the color of desert sand
With a flaming red diamond key brand centered on the front and it's got our picture on it too me and tarzan
Well the kids in my neighborhood took a fancy to it and wanted one like it. So my friend made them up special
Kids said I'll tell you about them. So that's what i'm doing now
Do you figure you'd like to have a k-shirt like I wear when i'm practicing tricks and fooling around?
I'll see that you get one if you drop me a note
Well, I said he'd fix you up with one for only a dollar and that sure surprised me
Just name your size
Two four six eight ten or twelve and if you want a k-shirt like mine
Just send me your name and address and the size and slip a dollar bill in the envelope too and send it to k-shirt
In care of this patient
Well the ghostwriter of loma escondida
That was something that always puzzled everybody down san toño way
Now loma escondida is a spanish name for a hidden hill and the mexican always gave it a wide berth
Moving at a considerable faster pace than usual crosses themselves and mumbling their prayers just to play a doubly safe
It was a lonely sort of a spot and the sagebrush was so high
It came upon a little rise of grounds of sudden like it would give you a start
The horses would just sort of shy back instinctively even tarzan
Well one night a cowpoke was mowing along giving his horse his head trying to catch a few winks in the saddle
Been chasing strays for a number of days when suddenly his horse rared up almost threw him into the mesquite
Then the horse bolted and the cowpoke had quite a time quieting him down
He was naean and quivering and shaken the cowhand was at a loss to figure out what was wrong until he looked back at loma escondida
And on the rise of land was a horse and rider
And the horse was a baeo coyote
With his black stripe standing out against the cream just as sharp as if it were daylight
The cowpoke was sort of curious so he started to trot back to the hill
To make conversation and possibly find out what made his horse shy
Well, it was all he could do to turn his pinnacle around then the horse wouldn't take a step towards that hill
He just pranced around quivering and snarting and he wouldn't move until the horse and rider on the hill rode away
Well buckaroos you can imagine that surely made the cowpoke mighty curious
It wasn't long before ever trace of the sleepy feeling he had been wiped clear out of his head
Because when he finally got his horse back away he saw the rider and called to him
But the rider kept on going and he was still not very far from the cowpoke
Until he finally got his horse back away he saw the rider and called to him but the rider kept on going
Until he finally rode smack into a tree and disappeared
It was the strangest thing he ever saw but the cowpoke didn't dare tell anyone about it for fear
They'd think he was plum loco
Well a few nights later this same cowhand was heading back the same way when his horse began to act up the same as he had before
And sure enough there was a rider in the baeo coyote atop the loma escondida same as before
This time the cowpoke was going to make sure he caught up with the mysterious rider
He had some questions to ask so the cowpoke dug his spurs in his horse and took off of the hill
But before he got there the ghost rider took off at a gallop himself
They were racing each other for the same tree
The cowpoke was gaining on it a little bit and it looked like he'd catch him this time when suddenly he disappeared
And the cowpoke had to rear his horse up to keep him smacking into the tree himself
Well this was just a little too much
Riders and horses just don't go melting in the mesquite or crawling into cracks in trees
Because that's all the cowpoke found a crack in the tree no hoof marks around or anything
But as the cowboy was hunting around he happened to kick something that just seemed to jump at him out of the ground
And it was a twenty dollar gold piece
So he looked around some more in real earnest and his boots kicked loose on old rotten piece of metal he did
That's the name the mexicans have for the leather pouches they use for saddlebags
Well buckaroos you can just imagine what the eyes of that cowboy did
When after digging a bit further his boots stirred up the most delightful jingle of twenty dollar gold pieces you could imagine
Yep
It was the gold the newton boys had buried after the murder of jess cassidy
And it was a ghost rider riding a bio coyote like jess used to that led the way to the lost gold
Well, no one ever seen that spook again, but i'm sure that old cowpoke would have been glad to see
He had a heap of thinking to do and the folks thereabouts might have thought he'd been chewing loco weed
If he hadn't got a right smart collection of twenty dollar gold pieces to back up his story
Anyhow explain it as you will
The mexicans believe that when a fellow dies his soul entered the mesquite and roamed around for a while until he got settled
Which sort of ties in with our story at that
I guess old cassidy's soul couldn't rest until he passed along those twenty dollar gold pieces to where they'd do a bit more good
So maybe that's why he hung around riding that wonderful bio coyote of his just waiting to lead some lucky cowpoke to a fortune
A gift from the ghost rider of loma esten deely
My goodness kem you know that was such a whopping big story and as you told it
I felt like I was really right out there in the mesquite
with you and that ghost rider all during the excitement
And say kids how would you like to have ken really there not in the mesquite but right in your living room anytime you want
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Now let's get back to ken
Did you like that story buckaroos?
The ghostwriter of loma escandida is one of my favorites
But you know buckaroos have a strong suspicion and in spite of the money
And all that those 20 gold pieces could buy most folks here about would rather have had that bio coyote
Well, that was tarzan again and this is ken maynard at the diamond cave saying so long folks until next time
But i'll tell you the story I call post hole bank
You've been listening to tales from the diamond cave stories of adventure told by ken maynard
internationally famous cowboy and hollywood's champion of western stars
We hope you're one of the regular visitors to ken's tack room
The doors always open at the diamond k ranch every weekday at this same time
Invite your friends to come along for a trip into the adventures of the wild west
And we bet mom and dad will enjoy these stories, too
Ken, you know is a real riding roping shooting cowboy who's traveled all over the world looking for excitement and lost treasure
Starring in circuses and rodeos and he's just chock full of rootin tootin stories
Ken will be looking for you tales from the diamond cave was transcribed and produced in hollywood